Thread: Has anyone found magnetic blades harder to sand

I got a magnetic blade off the bay recently (not telling which one yet) and I was working on sanding out some of the very light pitting last night. I went all the way down to 220 grit sandpaper and it barely seems to have touched the pitting. I don't know if this razor is just really hard or what, but it took significantly less time and energy to sand down my other blades.

I cannot say that has been my experience. Are you sure you are using the same type abrasive? Many of the coarse sandpaper a out there are not suitable for hardened steel.

I'm sure. It's a piece of the same sheet of sandpaper.

Well, it may be your other experiences possibly?

I find that heavy wedges seem softer and easier to sand than extra hollows (and the mags I have worked with were full or extra hollow).

The restorer cannot "muscle" a full hollow as much...perhaps this can explain?

I don't have as much experience or wisdom as some here, but usually when I stumble on something in my shop like this it is something simpler that it seems at first.

Hope something I said helps somehow.

Originally Posted by unit

The restorer cannot "muscle" a full hollow as much...perhaps this can explain?

If you muscle a full hollow more then likely you might hear a "ping".

Originally Posted by Martin103

If you muscle a full hollow more then likely you might hear a "ping".

The dreaded ping of death!

That is probably the issue. The is the closest to a full hollow I've worked on yet. Maybe it just seems to take longer because I'm treating it so delicately.